Chapter 25: Problem 869
What gives rise to the difference in the aggregate demand for a nontrading or closed economy from a trading or open economy?
Chapter 25: Problem 869
What gives rise to the difference in the aggregate demand for a nontrading or closed economy from a trading or open economy?
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Get started for freeIn an industrial country, capital is abundant. In a rural country, land is abundant. If these two countries trade, each specializing in the good it has a comparative advantage in, what will happen to the prices of the resources (capital and land) in the two countries?
The cost of producing one ton of steel in the United States is one ton less of coffee. The cost of producing one ton of steel in Brazil is foregoing two tons of coffee. Given that Brazil specializes in coffee production and the United State specializes in steel production, how will the price of steel (in terms of coffee) change in the United States? How will the price of steel change in Brazil? Generalize this result for any two nations trading on the basis of comparative advantage.
Given that Sri Lanka can produce two tons of tea at a cost of one ton of steel production, while the United States can produce one ton of steel at a cost of one ton of tea production, which country will produce steel? Which will produce tea? Draw the production possibilities frontier for each country (given that the United States can produce at most twenty tons of tea, while Sri Lanka can produce at most only ten).
If American agriculture is the most efficient in the world, could the United States still import food?
An argument frequently used against free trade is that it throws Americans (or Germans or Italians) out of work and lowers the wages of those who remain employed. It is argued that American labor cannot compete against cheap, exploited, foreign labor. Evaluate this argument using the principle of comparative advantage.
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